As a software developer, I do. I hate that google have redefined beta - it just makes it even harder for developers to release beta versions, because now people expect beta = production quality.
It was cute for a while, now it's just frustrating...
Do you really believe that you can do any major changes in software without breaking anything? No matter how intimate knowledge you have of the system or platform?
If the purpose of the parking meters is to make money for then city, then yes - who cares who pays.
If the purpose of the parking meters is to regulate the amount of cars downtown, then Apple shouldn't be allowed to pay their way out of it.
In other news:
A recent survey of 1200 Linux users confirms that more than 80% are pasty-faced, overweight men. "This is a significant overrepresentation" an anonymous scientist reports. The only possible conclusion to be drawn is that Linux is the single most significant factor in obesity and albinoism. Also, it seems using Linux is presumable linked to gender chromosome changes. An information campaign is being considered by the Department of Health.
The problem with software patents isn't the concept, but how it's carried out in practice. I practice - innovational value doesn't seem to be factored in when evaluating applications.
Any software developer will be inventing stuff on a daily basis - but not everything is that is innovative enough to deserve a patent. The difference with patenting 'physical' stuff is that the level for inventing something is much higher, as you actually have to produce something physical.
A lot of the current software patents are the physical equivalent of patenting "Walking", "Breathing", "Using small, baked, clay elements to manufacture building held together by mortar".
This is damned dangerous, and playing with all our lives. Soon compression rates will approach 100% where the data will collapse into itself forming a black hole that will suck in the universe.
Finally an end to illegally distributed child porn - finally the copyright holders who created the movies will receive the monetary compensation they are entitled to.
Oh wait...
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As a software developer, I do. I hate that google have redefined beta - it just makes it even harder for developers to release beta versions, because now people expect beta = production quality. It was cute for a while, now it's just frustrating...
I see you are not in development.
Do you really believe that you can do any major changes in software without breaking anything? No matter how intimate knowledge you have of the system or platform?
So what happens when little Suzy from myponyandme.com gets an excerpt from 'The Sex Manual'?
...the betatesting period is just over, and this is the final release...
May be annihilation gamma ray laser can destroy the dupes of slashdot? Nothing else seems to work...
...sell it by the kilogram...
If the purpose of the parking meters is to make money for then city, then yes - who cares who pays. If the purpose of the parking meters is to regulate the amount of cars downtown, then Apple shouldn't be allowed to pay their way out of it.
..just gonna sit back and watch this unfold. Honey! Bring the popcorn!
Hahaaa, you freeloading hippies - that'll teach you!
Get a job and a haircut!
--- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins. --- You sick pervert...
I find it amusing that one of the most intelligent men who ever lived calls the phenomenon 'spooky action-at-a-distance'.
I'm glad he didn't extend this to other phenomenons like 'Weird make-apple-falling-down-force' or 'Odd metal-attraction-thingy'.
On the other hand it would make scientific articles read like they were written by a 9 year old, which could be funny...
In other news: A recent survey of 1200 Linux users confirms that more than 80% are pasty-faced, overweight men. "This is a significant overrepresentation" an anonymous scientist reports. The only possible conclusion to be drawn is that Linux is the single most significant factor in obesity and albinoism. Also, it seems using Linux is presumable linked to gender chromosome changes. An information campaign is being considered by the Department of Health.
A lying car - like when it says the tank is full even though it's empty? Already got one of those...
Get new coworkers... Preferably someone who's passed fifth grade.
Seeing as you're using Oracle, you should already be accustomed to a high degree of software annoyance..
The problem with software patents isn't the concept, but how it's carried out in practice. I practice - innovational value doesn't seem to be factored in when evaluating applications.
Any software developer will be inventing stuff on a daily basis - but not everything is that is innovative enough to deserve a patent. The difference with patenting 'physical' stuff is that the level for inventing something is much higher, as you actually have to produce something physical.
A lot of the current software patents are the physical equivalent of patenting "Walking", "Breathing", "Using small, baked, clay elements to manufacture building held together by mortar".
What the h*
This isn't Offtopic! It might be Redundant though...
Commenting without reading the background information?! Good god - not on /. Please say it ain't so!!
This is damned dangerous, and playing with all our lives. Soon compression rates will approach 100% where the data will collapse into itself forming a black hole that will suck in the universe.
Damned scientists!
Who needs CAPTCHA breaking software - they can just outsource creating the accounts to China, India or some other country.
I wouldn't imagine creating 15.000 accounts would be very expensive.
In Soviet Russia, people use electricity for robots.
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Finally an end to illegally distributed child porn - finally the copyright holders who created the movies will receive the monetary compensation they are entitled to. Oh wait...
Ant colonies sound a lot like slashdot it seems...
It's a typo - "allows the Orbo platform to 'consistently produce power" should be "allows the Orbo platform to 'consistently produce revenue".